Toplumsal Bellek ve Belgesel Sinema

While our human heritage, which we have carried from thousands of years ago to today, is building our present, on the other hand, it emerges as an important determinant in the construction of our future. The traces and effects of social memory, which we often do not perceive with conscious awareness within the social structure and experiences, sometimes stand as an opportunity, sometimes as a threat and danger, in the face of the individual's search for freedom, awareness and socialization. Values and judgments that we encounter with stereotypes and prejudices in our relationships with the "other" in social life, are reproduced repeatedly and form our memory; It affects and determines our lives, our relationships with others and our vision of the future.

Science, philosophy and art are the areas where oppositional readings and actions take place, where we try to overcome this domineering determinism of the dominant system. Documentary cinema is one of the most effective tools in these searches. It is a type of cinema that focuses on human stories left out of the accepted judgments of history and tries to show that history and the present can be read and constructed in a different way. The basic function of documentaries is to "re-read, remember and record" the facts that have been put to sleep and forgotten and erased from memory. Documentary cinema realizes this reality by abstracting and interpreting it with the possibilities of aesthetics. Documentaries shot in recent years try to present an alternative history by making different readings of some issues that have taken place in our social memory. The increasing number of quality documentaries focuses on the function of documentary cinema; It requires a new look in terms of its relationship with history, society and memory. It is clear that this is not a coincidence, but rather the subject of a debate that includes changing social conditions, perception of the system, and the individual.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 256

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

Editor: Enis Riza

First Printing Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 256

Language Turkish